egypt fires tear gas at rallying crowds are angry at islamic president mohamed morsi who has granted him self sweeping new powers. israel and hamas observe a shaky cease fire despite trading accusations of violations after several riots and reported shootings. and the ease trillion euro budget is still up in the air as leaders fail to agree on home much they want to be spending. you're watching r t live from moscow with me to vomit sacred to have you with us

this afternoon egypt's security forces have fired tear gas at any protesters rallying against slamming president mohamed morsi and you decreed granting him sweeping powers spad to demos across the country the opposition has started a sit in protests and to have square pledging to fight what it calls morsi is a power grab carol based journalist who has the details. what i've really seen is quite harsh tactics used by the police to stop protests in tahrir square using a lot of tear gas on protesters throwing rocks down on protesters from a couple of buildings we've also seen molotov being thrown back and forth at the same time we've had demonstrations at the presidential palace in support of the president and also across the country we've seen president the president protesters clashing in front of brother headquarters so there's been quite a lot happening is actually in

a strange way united the opposition forces have been quite divided recently there was mass uproar when the president announced his constitutional declaration which essentially awarded him powers over the judiciary it also said that his decree and his declarations would be an appealable and this is something that's led commentators to call him the new pharaoh and to call the document in essence a coup so what we're seeing here is massive criticism of the president and actually quite a lot of fear but he's really becoming a new tactic a dictator because he actually has right now more power as the mubarak ever did the president does have a very large support base here was the hails from the muslim brotherhood which is a very organized organization and very able to get the protesters the members to the streets which is why we saw thousands in front of the presidential office in support of the president so really whether the oppositional forces can convince the people that that the president morsi is doing is wrong is to be seen.

egypt's president has defended the new decree granting him substantial powers morsi told his supporters he was leading the country on a path to freedom and democracy but journalist ahmed forty believes military rule in egypt has simply been replaced by another kind of dictatorship. what have mohammad morsi done mubarak in the height of his power could not even dream of achieving morsi is part of the muslim brotherhood and islam or fascist group they have control over their members and supporters it is very simple in a country with more than forty five percent of its population are illiterate to control them in the name of religion junctions are now seeing clearly they have replaced the military fascist style regime of hosni mubarak into the religious fascist regime of mohamed morsi and the muslim brotherhood egyptians have undertaken a revolution back in january twentieth levon calling for three simple things bread

freedom and social justice neither of these three. calls demands that they have called for and in the revolution have been achieved the state of the egyptian arcana me is in shambles this state of freedoms it's been marginalized people wanted to establish a democracy they wanted to establish solid to human rights they wanted to have social justice applied not to turn it from the military to the religious fascism. somewheres there from journalist ahmed fahour to who was talking to us earlier from new york. the fragile ceasefire between hamas and israel remains intact and has now entered its third day that's despite accusations from by size that there have been violations of the truth with riots and shooting

three at the border one man was killed in one thousand nine hundred eighty injured when israeli soldiers opened fire at palestinians who entered and no go zone at the border israeli defense forces set around three hundred people from gaza produce the security fence at different points on friday and warning shots had. we fired the details of the peace deal to allow the openings of crossings are still to be negotiated with israel opposing the hamas demands of a complete lifting of the blockade political analyst. says that this is why it's already a victory scored by hamas. really so i think netanyahu and his government have lost and or or i would pretty much put them in the category of a short term losers in this use fire if you just the whole thing sure that clearly how israel has no long term strategy in dealing with the power of the people or the

. hamas by clinging so. hard to this approach to resist and of course. verging on more popularity and to be honest with you just before the attacks or its. popularity was pretty much at one going and now it's coming back again to the scene. and preventing. a ground invasion on the power pretty much defending them at least that's what the with the public you know those things. polls show about half of all israelis i think the government should have pushed forward with the offensive that killed over one hundred sixty palestinians while hamas rocket attacks killed six israelis my god kevin oh when earlier i talked to alex s.-l. ski spokesman from the prime minister's office who now says israel's only goal is peace. definitely there are many people. that think the prime minister

should. get more in or get more of this operation go in ground operations because these people don't believe but hamas will really stop firing rockets and fortunately unfortunately people israel cannot believe the international community can. pressure in for is this ceasefire and that's why people are so kind of frustrated the prime minister started that peroration but again the fact the prime minister of peroration proved that we don't want to invade we don't want to we just want stability and peace sounds great on paper but the underlying tensions have gone away of that we could talk about this for a long time. and i'd like to ask you about that so while you're on the line an interested party course in all this looking on some officials there. said that israel is showing weakness by letting a mass of the hook how concerned are you with terrans reaction well first of all i

don't thing israel was weak israel was the cause is needed to stop the rockets just let us live in peace we will not use force believe me because even though with the surgical attacks what we've heard the word described a lot over the last couple of days there were dozens of civilians in gaza killed including thirty seven children will anyone in your government or military be held accountable for those deaths do you think differently and we're really really sorry for these deaths and that's good what we want we want to target in heard only those who fire rockets and. an excel ski the spokesman of benjamin netanyahu coming up talks between the e.u. leaders collapse in brussels this is reached on the trillion euro budget as we call and stronger members battled how much just spent on company.

british live demo minister lynne featherstone said that since women have babies it allows men to pass them up on the letter to power and such a children are a setback for women who want to be successful and equal to men so they want to give men the option of taking maternity leave or would that be paternity leave i don't know i kind of see the logic of her view but my question is featherstone is why exactly is success in the corporate world the primary goal of life for men and women as a feminist i would think you understand that wanting to fight your way up a ladder to buy a big car replace your shortcomings is a very male way of judging success are women who choose to have families failures or at least unsuccessful in your book even as a man i know that my pocket is really empty after having the first of hopefully many kids but i don't see our child as

a financial setback keeping me from buying an x. box that's what success is relative to the goal and maybe a corporate boardroom vision of success isn't for everyone women who have kids are failures in my opinion but then again that's just my opinion. mission. critique free storage free range and free. free stews free. download free broncos video for your media projects free video done to our teeth dot com. on the money with the business of russia this.

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going to be soon which brightened if you move from violence to impression. starts on t.v. dot com. you're watching r t a live from moscow elitists have been battling over their common budget in brussels for two days have failed to reach any decision we can members want to hold subsidies and support programs while large contributors to the coffers urge of belt tightening in line with austerity at home a members will have to work harder next year to come to an agreement if they don't want to fall back on more costly and will budgets but robert oulds the director of britain's largest euro skeptic think tank says countries they need a complete control over their financial affairs to prosper. if countries have the

votes to manage their own economies as they see fit then we wouldn't have this awful austerity that we're seeing we would have had these unsustainable booms which happened in southern europe and arland and of course we wouldn't have these enormous bust which is creating a massive unemployment if their countries had their own rights to manage their own affairs and set their own legislation to their own interest rates and many german economies as they see fit without having to hand over billions each year to brussels as britain does would be generally a lot better off really the european union we're seeing is reached the limits of its it levels of integration there are moves to expand more powers to the e.u. to have more the e.u. control over national member states budgets. even to have its own sources of income it's only you taxes that of course is pushing it too far it's gone far too far in the wrong direction which is centralization and it powers were turned i think the

atmosphere in europe would be a lot better off course in terms of the britain's own deficit and the debts that the u.k. has it is a small amount that the european union's asking for because the european union has already taken so much power people are just loathe to accept a situation where they're going to get any more money. while europe's ruggles to find a common way forward some regions are looking for ways to go it alone in spanish cut the line and people are set to go to the polls to elect a regional government which could see a referendum on its independence artie's enter farmer has the details. there's a wind of separatism blowing through europe at the moment and it's reached the northeastern shores of spain catalonia is the latest region to officially aspirate independence is something people here have long felt in their hearts but now they're feeling it in their pockets. i think it's a good idea to be banned them from. a country.

in a really really bad situation is a bargain for. it's a bargain for the good of the cattle and flags can be seen hanging from balconies throughout barcelona reflecting a growing desire for home rule under a drive to break away from the central government in madrid this weekend's local election is being fought on that issue alone catalan president mass has made it the centerpiece of his campaign this convergence union party vowed to hold an independent referendum if they win and say a free catalonia would be a cure all for the region's economic problems that have seen unemployment top twenty five percent the economic context in europe and in the south of europe has been a catalyzer of the. movement we can see in this and the people in cologne are

believe that with our own resources human capital economic resources we could be better off if not being in the spanish estate and this is a reality that a lot of economic research hours show many cattle and find it a persuasive argument it's one of spain's wealthiest regions producing a fifth of the country's economic output but it pays around sixteen billion euros a year more in taxes than it gets back in madrid which has in turn insisted public services into austerity cuts. this is not i mean we are the ones who're. doing our best in mccormick reasons we cannot afford the weight of this measure and the central government for us is the one who is spending the most and not in the best way last september barcelona witnessed one of the largest separatist rallies here since the nineteen seventies over one and a half million catalans took to the streets to call for independence but the path

to becoming a new european state is far from smooth the proposed referendum is against the spanish constitution what's more withdrawing from spain could also force this region to drop out of the european union those against separatism believe it could do more harm than good. separatism for it alone you know would be an economic disaster multi-national companies located in brazil for access to the spanish work it being in the e.u. that would be lost which more even of separatism does not happen just talking about it creates uncertainty and that is the last thing the economy needs during this current crisis. with poll suggesting after mass will win reelection barcelona and madrid look set free showdown the president of the spanish military association colonel leopoldo sanchez has even suggested it might lead to another civil war political parties dismiss that as extreme rhetoric but remaining catalans in hope this weekend will mark the first step towards the break up of spain. andrew farmer

r.t. catalonia. it's rajan's to spread throughout the gulf world and it's not political strive this time batters a mysterious respiratory virus claims more lives in qatar and saudi arabia raising concerns of the flu may be turning into an epidemic we report on that online. class of the year is actually two thousand and six for christians around the world that's according to the pope himself as he thinks he's found a miscalculation by several years for the birth of christ and the christian calendar more details are waiting for you on our cheese website. and now let's take a look at some other stories making the news this hour a bomb explosion in pakistan has killed at least seven people including children and wounded dozens of others the blast so too close during a muslim procession in the city which is a stronghold of the sunni militant groups

a mobile phone service in the area has been temporarily as such attacks are often triggered by handsets the tension between sunni and shiite groups is especially high at present with a major muslim holiday this week. police in thailand have used tear gas at the first a major antigovernment protests against prime minister. watters a sixteen month old government around ten thousand have poured into the streets while a group of demonstrators are aware tear gassed when they try to break through a police barricade the protesters accuse the prime minister of an anti monarchy stance and corruption the government is on high alert and says it could call in an army support if the situation gets out of control. a large blast in a packed restaurant in china's northern province has killed at least fourteen people and injured dozens the explosion rocked the two story building triggering

a blaze and damaged nearby shops six people were killed at the scene the rest died of the injuries. in hospital authorities say a gas leaks the most likely cause of the blast. in a scandal that's hitting headlines across the u.k. three children have been taken from a middle aged couple by local authorities because the force of parents were members of the u.k. independence party the social worker claimed it was because of you keep the racist policies that despite the couple having been approved force of parents for nearly seven years the leader of you cuban nigel farage it called the action our drage is an a political prejudice of the very worst kind. multiculturalism is on the rise in norway with many muslims among those contributing to a replica population in the scandinavian country but as maria for national reports radical elements in the expanding islamic community is of increasing concern for

locals. tolerance is no is well known trademark maybe even to well known thirteen percent of the country's five million population a remembrance but it seems it may be suffering from its own hospitality role and this sixty years was like everything that was supposed to cause this city started its immigrant community population two years it's been home to a large number of outsiders who believe in peace and money was treated like so besides it's not enough a while ago a radical islamic group demanded to make its independence from the city and the sharia law territory to feel literally. in a letter sent to some of the country's politicians and journalists and known extremists have threatened to carry out and nine eleven in no way if their demands are not met. it's really something really i think it's.

really to be taken seriously but to this is not the first death threat coming from noways muslim community in this we do know a pakistani born in mom preaches those not praying should be brought to prison for those not fasting during ramadan decapitated is it possible to kill here in the reverse yeah no problem or weapon is made to kill we hear concerns over how some immigrants bring part of their cultures to norway from the head of the country's hunting union on one of our or something courses there were pending for muslims. to have more interest in weapons in nature and helping attending courses is one of the two legal ways in no way to get a personal weapons license if you don't respect the region of rules and you want to . live in norway and then you can go back to your country opposition party member

he himself came to know we as a. dickel refugee in the late eighty's he says the ruling labor party is importing voters immigrants are indeed among the parties strongest supporters but the price is high how can you into a great minority when the minority actually the majority in the society is going to learn from. such rhetoric is too familiar to every norwegian a homegrown terrorist killed seventy seven here last summer protesting against the takeover of muslim immigrants also one towards one of those on that island last july his comrades and friends were killed right in front of his very eyes he says he survived to fight for what brave it tried to destroy the most important lesson is that we've never paid. ground of values for ground. it's a fight in the fight for democracy or. justice it's something that we need to focus

on despite concerns of the threat to kill made by some immigrants may be a real noways unlikely to give up its taller and small toe in fact it's quite the opposite for many the only response to brave extend to immigrants motivated massacre is seen immigrants embraced more than ever before marie for national r t no way. after the break here tomorrow's world today technology update is just ahead here on r.t. . in japan the average height for men is one hundred eighty two centimeters ten centimeters shorter because of that some employers refused to hire me one of them even told me directly that i was too short to deal with the clients computers already spent three months in this hospital and plans to stay for another four to

add the cut. they did seven santa meters to his stature invented by the famed soviet orthopedic. in the nineteen fifties these frames were initially used to treat fractures in deformities by cutting bones and slowly pulling them up or therefore stimulating tissue regeneration it was out of was able to receive arms and legs and people who thought they were crippled for life be sent to the other patients and in many cases their shattered lives in the goal when professing designed his first frame bicycle parts sixty years later his invention is increasingly being used to help people who are eager to fracture their legs to become a few centimeters taller than the ultimate goal is still the same six thing somebody is live both literally and figuratively about a third of patients admitted to the center now days seeking syria. most of them

are men and most are not what you would call vertically challenged professor novikov who operated on many of them sas it usually comes down to man's pride. the first patient to turn to us with a leg linked to me request to meet his fifteen centimeters to want to surgery because panos tool than him to say that we need to break their legs in order to fix this may be nothing wrong with them from the p.d. point of view but there is something psychological that prevents them from living their lives fully being happy and we fix it like lengthening surgeries are banned in many countries and even the out they're pretty expensive in russia the entire course costs eleven thousand dollars about one tenth of the similar package in the united states. financial considerations for one of the reasons that brought this washington state native to western siberia his main motive for the surgery had to do with how he fared. in america advertised as one seventy five i was one

sixty seven or one sixty a console one eight centimeters would have brought me right to average because i just wanted to be average for women height isn't so important you know i think girl can be short and it's not a big deal i think a guy is like expected to be taller just before the operation most this matter a russian girl who found he's a regional hide quite endearing yet he still want to have the surgery adding seven more centimeters to the self-confidence she took told me the whole time you're crazy you're normal you're perfect. so now or so they call you so what a compliment for somebody who's used to falling short of his own expectations.

hello and welcome to technology update here in moscow we're always on the lookout for the newest of the new and there's been no shortage of big announcements in the high tech world especially as the russian capital plays host to the open innovations forum. the first ever gathering under this name got kicked off at the end of october believe it looked to bring together high tape gurus and investors from across the globe more than ten thousand participants from dozens of countries to the expo center along the moscow river to handle the influx the exhibition halls were decked out to fulfil all the eighteen d.'s gadget driven needs build. government to encourage.

those who are the main organizers of the rodeo narrow certainly let its presence be tiny take giant showed off many of its affiliated projects. exhibiting the size and breadth of its portfolio there are companies ranging from counters that materials to solar panels. the one that caught our eye was a company whose main offering sixty keep yours in tip top shape. which has grabbed a few headlines in the past. has recently come out with a new idea they could be the first products. just like a pharmaceutical company so we need distributors pharmacies additional.